{"id":803,"date":"2016-04-14T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=803"},"modified":"2017-02-19T13:33:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T18:33:37","slug":"sitting-top-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/sitting-top-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitting on Top of the World (Doc Watson)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sitting on Top of the World\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tTnsrZTx9jg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This was one of the biggest hits to come out of the Mississippi Delta in the early blues era, recorded by the Mississippi Sheiks in 1930 &#8212; I don&#8217;t know if any other recording from rural Mississippi came close to it in sales during that period.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-805\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Sheiks-Sitting-on-top-of-the-World.jpg?resize=260%2C241\" alt=\"Sheiks - Sitting on top of the World\" width=\"260\" height=\"241\" \/> I love the Sheiks, especially Lonnie Chatmon&#8217;s fiddling, but didn&#8217;t hear them until I was in my late teens or twenties, and had no idea who they were when I first heard this song on Doc Watson&#8217;s first album. I got the guitar part from Doc&#8217;s songbook, which provided tablature, and it may well have been the first piece I ever learned in open D tuning, and remains one of the few &#8212; I have trouble enough just keeping a guitar in tune, without attempting to retune it on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think Doc used open tunings all that often, either, but he explained in his notes to this song that he adapted his arrangement from Frank Hutchison&#8217;s &#8220;The Train that Carried my Girl From\u00a0 Town&#8221; and &#8220;Worried Blues.&#8221; At the time, I didn&#8217;t know who Hutchison was, either &#8212; and when I finally heard him, all I could <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-806 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Doc-watson-with-monroe.jpg?resize=163%2C169\" alt=\"Doc watson with monroe\" width=\"163\" height=\"169\" \/>think was how much he reminded me of Doc, except quirkier.<\/p>\n<p>Doc described &#8220;Sitting on Top of the World&#8221; as about an &#8220;old boy whose woman has run off and left him&#8230;. 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